KeriBlog

Cars, Security & a Peek into my Life

About My New Newspaper Column Job

Starting tomorrow, I’ll have a regular 300-word column about car culture for Sun Media, specifically the paper 24 Hours Toronto, their automotive site AutoNet, and potentially in Sun publications across Canada.

I’ll be writing about car culture.  Topics like: how to make fast sharp turns safely; pedestrians need to back up; go for a lazy drive down to Cherry Beach because, when was the last time you did?

     Best parts about this:

          1 – I’m paid to write about something I blogged & videod for 5 years: I love driving

          2 – my email is published at the bottom of each article

          3 – I made a blog make money

Meet my editor Joe Duarte, and welcome to my blog, Joe!

We met at Honda’s First Ever Manual Driving School. He emailed that I almost hit him, I replied eye roll, he emailed back the below photo.

This photo is funny, and proves nothing.

This will be my profile pic for now, until their official photographer can book me in.  Which thankfully is not this week because omg look at my hair.  No don’t.

Taken while waiting in the lobby. Is this happening?

Am I signing this? I won’t have full control of something.

 I’m most excited to see my name in print,

in ink, on paper, to hold it in real life.

You can blog and blog and video and blog, and no matter how much you make, you can never hold it.

  • 1 – my celebratory burger & beer
  • 2 -I’ve been concerned about making the adjustment from blog writing to print writing, and seeing this made me feel better, “totes”
  • 3 – this too. I had that exact Fiesta in the spring.  I can do this.

Let’s DO this!

Really pumped guys!  Thanks for continuing to cheer me on.

Love,

Keri

 

 

The Los Angeles Auto Show 2011

I had a great time at the LA Auto Show last November! Ford brought me along with them, was a gracious host and I had an amazing time, thanks again guys!

Ford.ca

A 6.7L engine woah, that pickup dream of mine is old, it’s too bad tinting that dark is illegal, those Mitsubishi concept cars are cute, I stand by my cycling team comment :|, and cool about the Mustang Pantone yellow like a school bus, eh.

Click here for a full list of debuts at the show. Also, the show does something nice each Thursday night before it opens, they throw a charity event benefitting a program to give healthcare to the homeless in LA.

But wait, November was so long ago, why is this video posted now? I’d moved the week before, moved to a new laptop, switched to the new Final Cut X, then left the country for 4 months weeks after getting home. Still good footage, still sorry about the delay Ford :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yonge Street is Closed for a Month Starting August 17

Arriving home Sunday night, I went for a walk and found this confusion…  people walking down the centre of Yonge Street?

A little Google work and tada: introducing Celebrate Yonge.

  • 1 – the new pedestrian lane
  • 2 – the new car lane
  • 3 – the guys who painted the lanes

From August 17 to September 16 there will be planters to create a barrier between cars and pedestrians, restaurants will add patios on the sidewalk, there will be street vendors, I really like this idea.  Plus with 200 people for every 1 car, this makes sense.

BlogTO has a good map of how it will be set up.

This is the first time since the ’70s this has happened!  Click here to see photos from then.

I really like Yonge Street, I walk it a lot; the people watching is amazing.  I went through a phase in 2008 where I’d often eat at the McDonald’s on Yonge at Wellesley, click here for a really old blog post about that.

Non-Canadians: Yonge street is one of Canada’s busiest streets, and is the longest street in the world.